RPM 4.4.2.1
As Panu discusses and the announcement details. rpm.org has released rpm-4.4.2.1 maintenance release.The hg branch for 4.4.x is http://hg.rpm.org/rpm-4.4.xThe hg branch for HEAD and new development is...
View ArticleTime for a change
After much consideration - I've decided to pursue other opportunities outside of Red Hat. My last day is today.It's been a tough call, Red Hat have been a fantastic employer but it's time for me to do...
View Articleyaboot
yaboot 1.3.14 is releasedhttp://yaboot.ozlabs.org/Once my Fedora account is sorted I'll update there.Many nice things for enterprise ppc users - bootonce, pSeries netbooting, user confs, pxelinux style...
View ArticleYaboot update
It's taken me some time since I moved in to the new place to setup my test environment again, it's not ideal as I don't have as much ppc hardware as I used to but it's a start. The morning was spent...
View ArticleVirtualisation libraries
Whilst looking into the progress of libvirt and use with VMWare and OS X, I discovered ivi which is a java library around VMWare, Xen, KVM and OpenVZ. Hopefully VMWare in libvirt won't be far off.
View ArticlePuppet and ctags
Whilst finding my way around puppet, I realised that some of the tools I'm used to when developing in other languages weren't quite there. A quick read through the ctags documentation and I knocked up...
View ArticleTool of the day
I was looking for something to simulate delay and latency on linux using netfilter or iptables and discovered Netem and the wonderful lagfactory script that did just what I wanted.
View ArticleOS X and dtrace
Played a bit with trying to get mod_trace the dtrace module for apache working with Leopard yesterday evening. gcc -o foo -arch x86_64 foo.c...
View ArticleShell history meme
history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] "" i}}'|sort -rn|head96 ls47 vi37 sudo35 cd30 make21 vim17 svn16 curl15 gdb12 grep
View ArticleThoughtworks Geek Night - Mocking 28th May
May 28th will be a Mocking focussed Geek Night at the ThoughtWorks office:Mocking can make code more reliable, more comprehensible and allow youto spot problems in design long before your code is...
View ArticleSystems Administration must die, die, die
I really think that the term "Systems Administration" needs to go away. Use Systems Integrator, Systems Engineer (or Systems Reliability Engineer if you're Google) or some other term that more...
View ArticlePuppet 0.24.6
I'm really excited to get back from holiday and see the release of puppet 0.24.6. http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/d3752a90ef20323f#Some of the new language features...
View ArticleCapturing the intent of system changes
There has been some discussion on the puppet lists about potential language shortcomings, something lak said echoed with some thoughts I've been having recently:No one starts with code, even when they...
View ArticleScribe
I've just come across Facebook's open sourced logging aggregator scribe, which looks...
View Articlepuppetdoc goodness
More puppet goodenss from masterzen in the form of improved puppetdoc:http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetManifestDocumentation
View Articlepuppetdoc goodness
More puppet goodenss from masterzen in the form of improved puppetdoc allowing inline manifest documentation:http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetManifestDocumentationSample output...
View ArticlePuppet gets Continuous Integration
Whilst I was caught up with the day job (long, long commutes ...) Puppet seems to have got itself a CI setup:http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetContinuousIntegrationIf you have a weird and...
View ArticleA new entry into the state driven config management field
Whilst reading my daily blog roll I noticed that Ezra posted about a new configuration management tool chef and fact gatherer project ohai from the guys as opscode.There is more details on the wiki,...
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Fosdem 2009
I finally got organinsed and booked going to FOSDEM, I didn't get there last year and am looking forward to it. Hopefully get a chance to catch up with some people.
View ArticleEvent: London Talk and Discussion on Agile Systems
I'm giving a talk and discussion on Agile Systems Administration and Infrastructure at Skills Matter on April 23rd.http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-scrum/agile-pragmatic-systems-administration
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